class37418stag Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 Hello everyone please can I have copy of hitchin diesel depot in north London of track plans or some photos thank you Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold mudmagnet Posted June 20, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 20, 2021 There are a few photos on line. I made a 4mm model awhile ago, having found a few photos and produced my own drawings. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rail-Online Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 (edited) Distant view on the Rail-Online site https://www.rail-online.co.uk/p958043879/h3e8a85ee#h3e8a85ee Tony p.s. I think it still exists, being a PW dept maintenance facility Edited June 21, 2021 by Rail-Online add info 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 The shed had gone well before I moved here (it's North Hertfordshire by the way, not North London), but there is a signal box diagram on PwayOwen's excellent site here ... Also these old threads may be of interest 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oceman Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 12 hours ago, Rail-Online said: Distant view on the Rail-Online site https://www.rail-online.co.uk/p958043879/h3e8a85ee#h3e8a85ee Tony p.s. I think it still exists, being a PW dept maintenance facility Yep, Still there. Next to MacDonnels, Nighingale Road Hitchin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class37418stag Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 Yes I has seen and can’t find tracks plan of hitchin diesel depot because I need track plan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Radford Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Not great... https://www.brdatabase.info/sites.php?page=depots&subpage=main&id=264 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted June 22, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 22, 2021 This one: https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/519500/230500/13/100765 might be a bit early Regards Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted June 22, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 22, 2021 I've taken a screenshot of Google maps as it's pretty much what I remember from working there. Some sidings were cut short when McDonalds was built, but not by much. The 'Rail maintenance depot' is the previous 2 road Diesel depot with the track being cut short on the approach to it. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted June 22, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 22, 2021 The easy way is this: https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW020885 Regards Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HGR Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Remember that place well in the '70s - '80s. It was the p-way ODM dumping ground for many an old yellow track machine awaiting scrapping. There was a departmental Mk.1 BSO there that was still in maroon livery. It had the (unique?) coincidence of the last three digits of its KDB 975269 number matching its previous identity hiding under the paint as E 9269. It vanished sometime in the early '80s I think preserved ? Did it become a diesel depot after that in the '90s or later (and a hiding place for a couple of class 56s) ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 I cannot separate out my photos of the plant from the engineers sidings nearer London on the East side. And this only finds a few of them Paul Bartlett's Photographs | Search (zenfolio.com) Searching for Hitchin. I have a number of the On track plant, some condemned as mentioned. The maroon departmental https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/internal04xxxxer/e2eb3bf6d Interesting place, I've not visited for many years. I always used to look out for it when passing on a train, and the gap in the low embankment where the engineers depot was entered. Very friendly staff in there, was an important part of rekindling my interest in wagons after the student years hiatus. Paul 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HGR Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 The engineers sidings on the UP side to the south of Hitchin station just before you run out into open countryside - see the Hitchin South box drawing up-thread, was referred to as the stockyard. This was for p-way materials. In the '70s a very good source of random wagons. More recently a housing estate ! The ODM / OTP yard was on the DOWN side immediately north of the station where the former junction to the Bedford line diverged from the main line. I concur on the friendliness of the staff in there - always willing to let the inquisitive in for a look around. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 7 hours ago, Ian Smeeton said: The easy way is this: https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW020885 Regards Ian That map is quite recent, it shows the new flyover from the Down Slow onto the Cambridge Branch. It also shows my house, and even my wooden garden shed - but not the greenhouse! Those sidings were used to store quite a lot of On-Track Plant when Jarvis Rail had to withdraw from railway maintenance following the Potters Bar accident. It just sat there for many months not turning a wheel. The former Engineer's Sidings on the Up side of the line south of the station had already been lifted to make way for a housing development. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class37418stag Posted July 17, 2021 Author Share Posted July 17, 2021 Hello I has seen pictures of hitchin and will draw of track plan following correct of hitchin diesel depot Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class37418stag Posted July 17, 2021 Author Share Posted July 17, 2021 (edited) Hello I has seen pictures of hitchin and will draw of track plan following correct of hitchin diesel depot That correct of track plan of hitchin diesel depot ? please reply to me back thank you Edited July 17, 2021 by class37418stag Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
18B Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Issue 3 of on shed has a pic iirc of hitchin and some useful information about its workings etc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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